Hi, recently ex-Amazonian here. It very much varies team-to-team. I was both careful and lucky enough to always be on teams where work-life balance was actively

Hi, recently ex-Amazonian here. It very much varies team-to-team. I was both careful and lucky enough to always be on teams where work-life balance was actively prioritized, with managers literally telling people to take more PTO, ensuring that stressful oncall experiences were a) compensated with unofficial time-off and b) taken as a prompt to invest in paying down tech debt to avoid repeat experiences. My experiences seem to have been better than the industry average. But then I saw how some teams (predominantly, but not exclusively, based in Seattle) worked, and....yeah. Overall, not great.